Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-20


G. II. Prior, who pays ever $1,000 a
year in taxes on Woonsocket property.
has heard the news that the town is to
have no more saloons and writes that
he is glad Of it. lie thinks that it will
increase the value Of property.
SPARKS FROM THE wASHlNGToN
REPORTER.
Bro. Sparks is said to be writing a
history Of his administration of the
general land Office. 1t will be an eX-
cellent specimen Of profane history if
he will only include in it the impartial
encomiums Of the honest settlers in
their estimate of his administration.
Sparks in general fly upward, but our
particular Sparks, with the Calamity
attachment, flies every way but the
right way. 1t is not the kind then, that
sets the world atire.
Dakota mothers brighten their chill
dren to sleep by the simple mention Of
Calamity Sparks name.
Justice VIM. B. Woods, Of the SUI
preme court of the United States, died
at his residence in Washington at 1910
O'Clock, p. m., May 18th.
Take two townsites, let one be q
beautiful location with all the natural
advantages possible and the other none
of these. Take 500 old fogies and mi
sers-men who do not believe in Civ
ing capitalists anything for risking
their money in their town and lat
them on the good site. Then take 2oE
good, live, energetic, get-up-and-gef
sort of fellows, who neverlet an oppor-
tunity pass to advertise themselves
and their town, and put them on the
poor toWnsite, then watch those two
towns for FIVE years and you will very
readily catch on to the secret OF town
building. Burlington Reporter.
An unpublished law passed by the
last legislature specifies that it is "the
duty Of the assessor Of each of the
counties Of this territory, when max.
ing the assessment of their respective
counties, to make out a list containing
the names of all persons in their re-
spective counties liable to perform mi
litary duty, and file copy of such Est
| with the register of deeds in the coun-
| ty, to BE by him kept as a matter Of re.
ference, and also to transmit to the sec
rotary of the territory a copy to be by
him kept as d matter Of reference in
mis- office. which copy shall be filed in
the offices of the persons aforemention-
ed on or before the LIST day of January
of each year.
1t is worth noting that wherever
outright prohibition is not being di-
rectly agitated, that lesser degree Of
prohibition known as high license or
| local option is receiving attention
Pennsylvania and Michigan are just
Joining the high license, or at least
higher license army It is worth While
also to remember that no state can a.
dept high license or local option pol
icy, without by that very fact accept
ing the prohibitory principle. state
prohibition only differs from local OPP
ton and high license as a big horse
differs from a little horse, there is more
of it. That being so, it is about as sig
nilicant sign Of the times as there is
in sight, that in no state in the union
where proposition has been made to
make saloon licenses higher, has that
proposition been defeated Sioux City
journal.
TERRITORIAL NEyFRlNARIAN.-
appointment of DR.. G. J. AlloWay, OF
Grand Forks, as territorial veterinarian
meets with universal approval, and IS
an eminently worthy selection. Dr.
Alloway is a graduate of the MontEeal
Veterinary College in 1869, and was Ior
many years member of the board OF
examiners OF that institution. With q
thorough professional training he u
mites a natural liking for live stock,
and is an expert horseman. lie mas
been at the head OF the Dakota .lhor-
oughbred Cattle Nursery, at tSrano
Forks, for two or three years past. Df.